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Tiger Daughter

Tiger Daughter
  • Author(s): Rebecca Lim
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is a wonderfully compelling and authentic Own Voices novel...

Tomorrow, When the War Began

Tomorrow, When the War Began
  • Author(s): John Marsden
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Near future

When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong — their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in their...

Too Bright for Murder (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 2)

Too Bright for Murder (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 2)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Ruth Finlay accompanies her neighbour Doris Cleaver and the Mahjong club on a long weekend in the picturesque town of Bright, she’s hoping for a relaxing time researching the town for a feature article. Instead, the death of...

Travels with George

Travels with George
  • Author(s): Vivien Fallows
  • Location(s): Australia, Los Angeles, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The Cook Islands
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2010's

In 2000, after her children set off for new lives on the other side of the globe, Vivien Fallows embarked on a solo travel mission. At the request of her husband, Vivien shared the stories in a diary, which...

True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings...

Trust

Trust
  • Author(s): Chris Hammer
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a bright sunny day in Port Silver, ex-journalist Martin Scarsden misses a call from his girlfriend Mandy. Checking his voicemail later, all he hears is her terrified scream before the phone cuts off. Back at the house, he...

Trust Me, I’m Dead

Trust Me, I’m Dead
  • Author(s): Sherryl Clark
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Judi Westerholme finds out her estranged brother has been murdered, she assumes it’s connected to his long term drug addiction. Returning home, she is shocked to discover he had been clean for years, had a wife – now...

Tugga’s Mob

Tugga’s Mob
  • Author(s): Stephen Johnson
  • Location(s): Europe, Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s, Present day

Waikato-born Judy Williams worked hard for her Big OE: London, Paris, Rome, Gallipoli. Her adventures were dutifully recorded in a diary. A trip journal that also details how the obsessive Tugga Tancred and his Kiwi mates turned Judy’s trip...

Two Old Fools Down Under

Two Old Fools Down Under
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Australia, New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Present day

★ New York Times Bestselling author ★ When Vicky and Joe wave goodbye to their beloved Spanish village, they face their future in Australia with some trepidation. Now they must build a new life amongst strangers, snakes, and spiders...

Unforced Rhythms

Unforced Rhythms
  • Author(s): M D Wigg Jay Heyes
  • Location(s): Nairobi, Melbourne, Surrey, Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book two of the comedy series about the progress of Curates Chris Duncan, Ellie, Ravi and youth worker Mike who are largely going their separate ways geographically in book two. The Archdeacon’s (A.D) eldest daughter Eve is to spend...

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